Who Makes Your Clothes

Four companies make everything we sell. This page lists who they are, where they
are, what each of them makes for us, and what has been independently checked.

Kathmandu, Nepal

Dinadi

Makes our knitwear, including organic merino wool sweaters. Working with us since 2024.

Hand-knit by knitters Dinadi employs directly, working from home. No third-party labour audit, but Dinadi publishes detailed figures on how it treats them: a living wage near double the local rate, retirement contributions, profit-sharing, and a dedicated social worker. Self-reported, not independently audited.

The yarn itself carries Oeko-Tex Standard 100 certification, confirming it's free of harmful chemicals — independently verified, though only for chemical safety, not working conditions.

Signed our supplier code of conduct.

KATHMANDU, NEPAL

Purnaa

Cut-and-sew manufacturer, 332 staff. Makes our clothing and accessories. Working with us since 2026.

Guaranteed Fair Trade by the World Fair Trade Organisation, re-audited 2025. That assessment covers the business as a whole, not individual product lines.

A registered Public Benefit Corporation, so annual impact reporting is a legal obligation rather than a choice. Their 2026 report puts staff at 93% female, 48% from what Purnaa terms empowerment backgrounds, and 30% having experienced severe exploitation or discrimination. Those are Purnaa's own figures.

Bangalore, India

Dibella India

Supplies part of our clothing items, produced at the SCC facility in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu. Working with us since 2026.

Certified under GOTS, Fairtrade, GRS, SMETA and BSCI, and verified by the Fair Wear Foundation. Cotton is bought directly from smallholder farmer groups rather than through traders, which is why this is the only part of our chain we can trace to the farm.

Noida, India

Poormina International

Apparel and home textiles, operating since 2001. Makes our clothing and accessories. Working with us since 2026.

No independent certification. They have signed our supplier code of conduct — a written commitment on child labour, forced labour and pay — which is a document, not an inspection, and we won't describe it as more than that.

What these certifications actually mean

WFTO Guaranteed Fair Trade
Assesses an entire business against fair trade principles rather than a single
product line, and requires periodic re-auditing. This is the certification Purnaa
holds.

GOTS covers organic fibre through every processing stage, including chemicals
and working conditions

Fairtrade sets a minimum price and premium paid to cotton farmers.

GRS Verifies recycled content and tracks it through production.

SMETA and BSCI are social audits of the workplace — hours, pay, safety.

Fair Wear Foundation Examines how a brand's own buying practices: pricing, lead times, last-minute changes — affect the people making the clothes, not only the factory's conduct.

Oeko-Tex Standard 100
Tests a finished textile against a defined list of harmful substances — dyes, heavy metals, formaldehyde and similar residues. A product-safety certification, not a labour or environmental-process one. It says nothing about working conditions or where the fibre came from.

Where our fabric comes from

Most of our fabric is leftover stock: fabric already woven for someone else's order
and left unused. It's the lowest-impact material available to a brand our size, and
it carries a trade-off worth stating plainly. Leftover stock cannot be traced back
to a farm. Nobody kept that record when it was made.

Merino sourced from sheep in South Africa, stated mulesing-free — Dinadi's claim, not independently checked. The yarn's Oeko-Tex 100 certification is independent, but it covers chemical safety only, not animal welfare or origin.

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Leftover stock. Dibella runs a cotton programme buying directly from smallholder
farmer groups, but that covers fabric they commission themselves, not the leftover
stock we buy from them.